Fall events (2009)
Cocktail Hour
LCM Center (SH 2509)
Friday, October 23rd, 4:00 PM
Please join graduate students and faculty for a social hour and an opportunity for introductions all around.
If you plan to attend, please email msatris@umail.ucsb.edu by October 20th
“Meaning What We Play”
Talk by Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Author of Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies
SH 2635; Thursday, October 29; 3:00 PM
Today’s games have well-developed models of spatial movement, combat, and economics. But their models of fiction barely deserve the name. Even those supporting the most ambitious games are burdensome and bug-prone for authors – while providing the player quite limited ranges of meaningful choice. This talk discusses examples of more dynamic approaches to fiction, considering lessons past work presents for designers wishing to craft models that express their visions for playable fiction. At the same time, the talk argues that critics need to begin to interpret the computational processes of computer games (and digital media generally) and connect them to an understanding of audience experience. http://www.noahwf.com/expressive-processing. Light refreshments.
“The Landscape of Digital Humanities”
Talk by Patrik Svensson
SH 2635; Thursday, November 12th; 3:00 PM
Patrik Svensson is the director of HUMlab at Umeå University, a digital humanities center started in 1998. He writes: In this presentation, I explore the current landscape of digital humanities starting out from a provisional territorial fly-through and discussion of digital humanities and digital humanists. I draw on three case studies as well as a distinction between paradigmatic modes of engagement between the humanities and information technology: information technology as a tool, an object of study, an exploratory laboratory, an expressive medium and an activist venue. This paper is the second in a series of four articles on the digital humanities, and I will give an overview of the whole project. Furthermore, I will briefly present HUMlab at Umeå University (through photos and film clips). Light refreshments.
LCM Graduate Student Event
LCM Center: Thursday, November 19th
Details to be announced
Tags: digital humanities, e-poets, n-gram, processing, visitors from near & far